Since becoming the Children’s Commissioner, I have travelled across the country meeting children whose lives are shaped by decisions made far away from them, whose voices are rarely heard.

Dr David Crepaz-Keay, from the Mental Health Foundation, said: "This reform must lead to better treatment, and greater focus on support that keeps people reaching crisis or being detained."

A new Learning Lessons bulletin from the Prisons & Probation Ombudsman summarises research from investigations where a prisoner’s death was caused by epilepsy or was diagnosed with epilepsy.

As part of Unjust Deaths, INQUEST have brought together a group of bereaved people, engaged artists, campaigners, journalists and others to form a Memorialisation Working Group.

The Law Society has called on the Government to invest more money in civil legal aid to ensure greater access for all. More than 42 million people lack access to legal aid.

The chair of England's first public inquiry into mental health deaths, Baroness Lampard, has vowed to "seek out the truth" - despite difficulties getting documents from the NHS.

A lack of supported housing was the biggest reason for delayed discharges from mental health hospitals in England last year, costing the NHS about £71m, according to a report.

Four more prisoners serving Public Protection sentences have taken their own lives, taking the number to 94. Another 37 released IPPs took their own lives in the five years to 2024.

"Criminal prosecutions brought against police officers are extremely rare and these decisions are only made after careful consideration of all the relevant evidence and circumstances."

Black Thrive Global (BTG) has announced the official publication of 'Black Voices on Policing', a series of reports produced by Black Thrive Global in collaboration with Psi.

New provisions have come into force to end Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences, described as the ‘single greatest stain on the criminal justice system’.

Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has set out plans to slash the number of women that are going to jail, and ultimately to close women’s prisons amid an overcrowding crisis.

One in five deaths are preventable every year. But, less than 1% have a coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths report (PFD) written and sent to individuals or organisations.

In a response to the latest inspection of Brixton Prison, prison reform charity the Howard League have criticised the prison for locking men up "for hours on end’ in ‘dirty overcrowded cells’.

Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has set out major plans to slash the number of women going to jail and ultimately close women’s prisons amid an overcrowding crisis.

"In Love and Anger" is a report of an action research-based study of the pioneering Tina’s Haven pilot project, delivered on birthmother's severed from their children.

A recent investigation by the Observer has revealed widespread use of disputed medical terms in explaining deaths following police restraint incidents in the United Kingdom.

A new issue of the Justice Gap magazine PROOF is out, examining our broken criminal appeals system. PROOF features a series of articles on a number of shocking cases.

New anti-protest laws have come into force, through the Public Order Act (May 2023) and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (April 2022). “know your rights.”